KTM – 2014 Pirelli Bike of the Year
KTM notched up the honours in front of an array of well known motorcycles to become this year’s Bike of the Year.
THE 2014 Pirelli Bike of the Year is the KTM’s 1290 Super Duke.
KTM notched up the honours in front of an array of well known motorcycles to become this year’s Bike of the Year.
This was announced at the official opening of AMID Motorcycle Show, which runs from August 8 till Sunday August 10 at NASREC.
BMW’s S1000R and R1200 GS Adventure were runners-up.
As was the case in 2013, the competition was once again very close, with the S1000R actually being the first choice of more judges, but the KTM winning on overall score.
The award was the culmination of a process facilitated by Harry Fisher and Mat Durrans, the presenters of DSTV’s The Bike Show.
Motorcycle manufacturers and importers were asked to nominated new-for-2014 models, from which nine finalists were chosen by the panel of judges.The nine finalist bikes were intensively assessed by judges during a two-day stint in the Sabie/Hazyview area of Mpumalanga.
The trip included urban riding, highways, mountain passes and even an off-road track for the adventure bikes. The purpose of all this was to achieve the almost impossible: to determine which of this crop of seriously good bikes would be named the best bike of 2014.
The nine finalists were:
BMW R1200GS Adventure
BMW S1000R Ducati 899 Panigale
Ducati Monster 1200
KTM 1290 Super Duke
Suzuki V-Strom
Kawasaki Z1000
Yamaha MT-09
